The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-02
RAILROAD RACKET,
MISSOURI PACIFIC OFFICIALS STOP OVER
ONE NIGHT IN THE CITY
\ STICK Brakeman increase of Bust
ness on The central
Other Rackets

a specic car, north bound, on the
Missouri Pacific, stopped over in
Waco from O'Clock Wednesday night
until Z O'Clock Thursday morning.
1t contained General superintendent
10. Herin, Assistant Superintendent
III. q. Fleming, Tralnmaster II. j.
Ray, General Rosdmaster =. j. Con
ley, upcrinteudeut OF Bridges aud
Buildings A. l.. Bowers, all of the
Missouri Pacific railway. They we're
on tour OF Inspection, but were not
interviewed by any newspaper re.
porter.
Would it not be good idea for the
citizens committee OF fifteen to look
into the matter which Is talked OF
so much in Austin, about building
railroad from Austin to McGregor
While it does seem strange that
citizens of Bolton, Salado, Georgetown
and Austin should indu &c in
the idea of building road to
MEG regor when they could come TO
Waco aud secure help from our PEG.
pie, they may be in earnest and il
they are, the road will be worth work
ing for. IT the projectors can be in
duCed to change their proposed route
across the Santa Fe at Moody and
come into Waco it can be made pay
ing route, and will pass through
some OF the richest aud finest farming
country in Texas. The proposed
plan OF building into McG regor may
seem absurd to us, but the people OF
Austin and other towns named seem
to be i'll dead earnest
Major George w. Turnbull, com
mercial agent tor the Central road,
tells true story about "a sharp brakes
man who did some work for
his road over the main line. A
conductor on a passenger train
bound south, arrived al Cors-
icsus, with one brakeman short,
and applied to an official for man
/ He was furnished one, aud the train
started on south. Arriving at MeXiF.
/ the conductor telegraphed back to
/ the official at Corsicana that the man
was not worth cent, and asked for
Instructions. At Thornton, the an
/ swer came, "When YOU arrive at
lIearne, give linn hts time Brakoy
caught on to the racket, and not
wishing to be fired, when the tram
arrived at Bremond, he telegraphed
TO COrsicana to the official who had
/ given him the job, to please accept
his resignation. 1t was accepted
Mr.. +. Dillingham;, ticket agent tor
the Central, was busy yesterday max
ing out his reports for the month of
November, and selling tickets to
emigrsuts who are going to Cantor
MIA and other states IN the west
The business transacted in the
4 Central ticket Office for the month OF
November is three times as much as
was ever done TOR the same month in
any wear since the road was built into
Waco.
Mr.. 5. w. Slsyden lefs yesterday
for New y ork via the Cotton Belt.
Ticket agent ID. Il. llirschtield says
the Cotton Bolt does two-thirds OF
/ the business in all travel to the old
/ southern state.
For the montA of September, 1850
the Cotton Belt transferred 100 pas
sengcrs at Brinkley, on the Mem
| phis and Little Rock railroad. For
/ the month of October over 1900 pas
scngers were transferred at the same
poiut. Ii that is not an increase III
passenger .ravel, what is it! Mr.
sam Hunt, live stock agent for the
| Cotton Belt, says he is dong an i'm
mense transfer business i'll cattle from
/ the Texas X paciilc to his road.